Albert Einstein was a smoker, as were a lot of other scientists.
NASA mission control celebrated with cigars when the mission was successful...
From my own experience, smoking sometimes helped me improve concentration and it gave me a 10 minute cigarette break every hour or so, during which I could do some out of the box thinking on the problem.
Tobacco is like a close friend/advisor which is always with you.
Had it not been for the health issues it provoked in me (circulatory/heart), I would still be smoking today.
Even as a non-smoker now, I still respect the plant and I'm grateful for our relationship which lasted for 20 years.
I think it has greatly influenced our (human) development. This is very hard to measure or prove, of course, but given the mystical status that shamans attribute to it ("most powerful plant in the jungle"), I would suspect that it had something to do with the giant expansion of human consciousness that we've experienced since it was introduced into "our" culture.
Good or bad, we don't know, it just did, since so many people use(d) it.
NASA mission control celebrated with cigars when the mission was successful...
From my own experience, smoking sometimes helped me improve concentration and it gave me a 10 minute cigarette break every hour or so, during which I could do some out of the box thinking on the problem.
Tobacco is like a close friend/advisor which is always with you.
Had it not been for the health issues it provoked in me (circulatory/heart), I would still be smoking today.
Even as a non-smoker now, I still respect the plant and I'm grateful for our relationship which lasted for 20 years.
I think it has greatly influenced our (human) development. This is very hard to measure or prove, of course, but given the mystical status that shamans attribute to it ("most powerful plant in the jungle"), I would suspect that it had something to do with the giant expansion of human consciousness that we've experienced since it was introduced into "our" culture.
Good or bad, we don't know, it just did, since so many people use(d) it.
Here's an interesting take on the subject: http://realitysandwich.com/217970/meeting-the-tobacco-spirit...
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